actually, they hit three leading companies, these are geely, byd and yes, but these are three leadingcompanies that produce in china, that produce electric cars and accordingly export them, plus two leading corporations, automakers bmw and volkswagen, produce cars in china and export them to the european union, actually there jointly by a joint brand. in the first 8 months of this year, the eu market purchased chinese electric cars for $ 8.5 billion. big part of this volume came from belgium, also in the top three. germany and spain, each with a share of just over a billion. it must be said that the decision on additional duties on chinese electric vehicles was far from unanimous. 12 countries, including spain and belgium, abstained, while five voted against, these are germany, hungary, malta, slovenia and slovakia. business also spoke out against, including the german automakers mercedes-benz and bmw, where they said that this decision was contrary to free trade and fair. also extremely the german automobile industry association reacted negatively to the initiative, here is what its